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  1. Verification Suite

Create expense category

POST
/api/v0/partner/category
Adds a category that employees can select on an expense.
The response categoryId is the id to send when you create an expense.

Request

Header Params

Body Params application/jsonRequired

Example
{
    "parentCategory": "Travel",
    "accountCode": "string",
    "accountType": "COGS",
    "attachmentOptional": true,
    "linkingRequestRequired": true,
    "guidelines": "string",
    "prohibitedWords": [
        "string"
    ],
    "expenseCategory": true
}

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curl --location 'https://ekpayout-uat.enkash.in/api/v0/partner/category' \
--header 'Authorization;' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "parentCategory": "Travel",
    "accountCode": "string",
    "accountType": "COGS",
    "attachmentOptional": true,
    "linkingRequestRequired": true,
    "guidelines": "string",
    "prohibitedWords": [
        "string"
    ],
    "expenseCategory": true
}'

Responses

🟢200
application/json
Category created.
Bodyapplication/json

Example
{
    "response_code": 0,
    "response_message": "string",
    "payload": {
        "categoryId": "string",
        "parentCategory": "string",
        "accountCode": "string",
        "accountType": "string",
        "categoryStatus": "string",
        "linkingRequestRequired": true,
        "attachmentOptional": true,
        "guidelines": "string",
        "prohibitedWords": [
            "string"
        ],
        "expenseCategory": true
    }
}
Modified at 2026-11-02 19:46:09
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